Reviews for Apple Magic Mouse

I have to use one of these for work and I have come to hate it with an unreasonable passion. It is hard to use for 8 hours, and by the end of the day my wrist and hand ache. It's basically a cool looking torture device.

21 of 27 people found this useful

Battery life is about 2 weeks normal usage on mine. The page keeps moving side to side without warning, most of the time losing the page altogether. Very frustrating, it does this if I just nudge the mouse by mistake, sometimes without touching it at all! And if I am on the internet this is a unacceptable, sometimes losing my page and a site altogether!!!. My friends have the same problem. I do not remember this being this bad on my old Mighty Mouse which just quit after 2 years. Maybe this is worsened by Lion? I had hoped the battery thing would be fixed, but it hasn't. This is not a mouse you want to buy nor is the wireless keyboard I threw away. Blue Tooth has problems at Apple! Is this static electricity?

16 of 19 people found this useful

1. You have SWEATY palms (hours of work will make ur hands slightly sweaty that u will hate to use the scroll feature!)

2. Very sensitive, like ur skating bare foot on ice! (moves u to another page with the slightest accidental touch)

3. Its bottom skates ONLY move on smooth SOLID surfaces. (i sometimes use my mouse on the couch..or anywhere i am sitting)

4. Heavy!

5. Painful for MS Office users.

33 of 56 people found this useful

Have used apple products for many years-this has to be one of the worst they have come up with. Ended up turning off all the options, and buying lots of batteries!!!

18 of 28 people found this useful

If you feel like going through a pack of batteries literally every week then go for it! Oh but there's the option to buy an alkaline battery charger for an extra $30 to make it a $100 mouse. Are you kidding me? What a joke. Put a rechargeable lithium battery in it! Come on, this is the 21st century! Must have some deal cut with the battery companies. The corded mouse is just as bad. The down scroll broke a week in. 2011, the year Steve Jobs and Apple died.

6 of 17 people found this useful

By far, the most uncomfortable mouse I have ever used! I like the concept, but would love it if it followed the same form and structure of Apple's regular mouse. The old style, with it's curved design, just fits better.

386 of 394 people found this useful

just got a new magic mouse went use it for the first time and it did not scroll..looked up why and it said it would not work with my older software 0x 10.4.11 on my mac book pro...go figure.. same thing happened when i bought my i pad 2 and wanted to synch it with my mac book..hate the way apple makes new gadgets but u cant integrate them with apples you currently have that are running perfectly fine just the way they are..... now i have to upgrade my operating system again which i cant afford right now to use my new mouse...the stores should ask you when you purchase their equipment what operating system you are using to see if it will be compatible.There was no information on the packaging letting u know what operating system would work with the magic mouse what happened to customer service at apple...

45 of 70 people found this useful

I dislike this product because it just stops working and never works again. I have had two mice now and now my second one has stopped working. I haven't spilled anything on it I keep it along with all of my other apple products on my desk and now I am going to have to buy ANOTHER mouse. So to anyone looking to buy this mouse I strongly recommend you do not.

13 of 18 people found this useful

Bought 6 iMacs that came with these magic mouses for work. Unfortunately after 6 months of everyday use...5 of these already have stopped working or our staff had to constantly unplug batteries and reset or reconnect via blue tooth. The iMac were a hit when we changed from PCs..but these mouse really stink!! Everyone has bought 3rd party wired mouses now. Sure, these mouses were cool looking, but they just don't live up to everyday use. Please avoid if you want more than the cool factor.

32 of 37 people found this useful

I've used this mouse for over two years, on and off. It's an utter disappointment. You'll buy it because it's cute, and the promise of the touch surface is promising, but the reality is somewhat less than satisfying.

First of all, the surface is too sensitive. It'll pick up your fingers holding/touching the edges to move the mouse and perform all sorts of strange zooms and pans seemingly out of nowhere. Additionally, there seems to be something wrong with the bluetooth (at least on the MacMini): whenever your disk is busy (backing up, moving large files, etc.) the mouse scrolling and clicks stop working. And battery life is quite poor, compared to Logitech and Microsoft mice.

In particular if you have big hands, stay away from this mouse. It's a very small mouse, and uncomfortable to use for long periods. My hand would start to cramp after a while from the sort of "pinch" position at which I had to hold the mouse, because it was smaller than my palm. It's like using one of those tiny laptop mice.

The biggest problem is you'll start making allowances for this mouse. It's bluetooth, so it's not very accurate. It's small and uncomfortable, and the touch surface is overly sensitive while its tracking is not sensitive enough. But it's ok, because it's Apple. When you do eventually try another mouse again--and you will--you'll find it's a world of difference and wonder what you were thinking ever using this mouse.

184 of 194 people found this useful